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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

merleswater.com

Merle's Water Conditioning - Your Trusted Water Solutions Experts

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

122 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Merleswater.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

merleswater.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,350 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

merleswater.com

129 ms

www.merleswater.com

71 ms

www.merleswater.com

94 ms

style-blocks.build.css

109 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Merleswater.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (820 ms) relates to the external source Killerplayer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 591.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Merleswater.com main page is 2.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 109.2 kB

  • Original 126.8 kB
  • After minification 126.3 kB
  • After compression 17.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 109.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Merle S Water images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 334.9 kB

  • Original 671.0 kB
  • After minification 671.0 kB
  • After compression 336.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 334.9 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 147.5 kB

  • Original 168.3 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 20.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Merleswater.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (32%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merle S Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

merleswater.com

merleswater.com

129 ms

www.merleswater.com

www.merleswater.com

71 ms

www.merleswater.com

www.merleswater.com

94 ms

style-blocks.build.css

style-blocks.build.css

109 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

22 ms

style.css

style.css

25 ms

8a539a43ba843d183b935c9b5d9cb502.min.css

8a539a43ba843d183b935c9b5d9cb502.min.css

53 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

37 ms

js

js

81 ms

dismiss.js

dismiss.js

36 ms

api.js

api.js

34 ms

3a3c607574b4d60c9decdf18567485ba.min.js

3a3c607574b4d60c9decdf18567485ba.min.js

46 ms

6514a39a-85c7-4dbf-81d5-be0200ff3b44

6514a39a-85c7-4dbf-81d5-be0200ff3b44

820 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

35 ms

MerlesWaterConditioning_Logo.png

MerlesWaterConditioning_Logo.png

102 ms

wave-container-mask.svg

wave-container-mask.svg

103 ms

Group-24.png

Group-24.png

101 ms

Group-26.png

Group-26.png

18 ms

Group-21.png

Group-21.png

102 ms

Group-19.png

Group-19.png

102 ms

commercial-water-services.png

commercial-water-services.png

106 ms

Group-65.png

Group-65.png

104 ms

Group-67.png

Group-67.png

106 ms

Group-69.png

Group-69.png

103 ms

jacek-dylag-Vve7XkiUq_Y-unsplash.png

jacek-dylag-Vve7XkiUq_Y-unsplash.png

108 ms

clogo-2.png

clogo-2.png

104 ms

clogo-3.png

clogo-3.png

104 ms

clogo-4.png

clogo-4.png

107 ms

clogo-1.png

clogo-1.png

109 ms

kathy-white-bear-lake-testimonial.png

kathy-white-bear-lake-testimonial.png

106 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

35 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

38 ms

awb-icons.woff

awb-icons.woff

14 ms

Accessibility Review

merleswater.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

merleswater.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

merleswater.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Merleswater.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Merleswater.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

merleswater.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Merle S Water. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: